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Edward "Ned" Beale McLean (1889 – July 28, 1941) was the publisher and owner of The Washington Post newspaper, from 1916 until 1933. His wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, was a prominent Washington socialite. McLean was also a thoroughbred racehorse owner and purchaser of the Hope Diamond, which was traditionally believed to carry a curse.
On August 16, 1943, she married Edward Beale McLean Jr., a son of heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean and Edward Beale McLean, heir to The Washington Post. McLean, whose mother had owned the Hope diamond , had previously been married to Ann Carroll Meem, of Washington, D.C. , from May 1938 to July 1943.
26 de sept. de 2023 · She had married Edward Beale McLean (also rich) in 1908, and three years later the couple purchased the stone, which was cut from Louis XIV’s “French Blue,” for a cool $180,000 (equivalent to...
Three days later, an enterprising Associated Press correspondent tracked down Edward “Ned” Beale McLean, erstwhile owner and former publisher of the Post, at a Montreal hospital, where, as the reporter charitably put it, he was “undergoing treatment.”
In 1908, she married Edward "Ned" Beale McLean, the son of John Roll McLean and heir to The Washington Post and The Cincinnati Enquirer publishing fortune. They had four children, two of whom predeceased their parents:
Edward "Ned" Beale McLean (1889 - 28 de julio de 1941) fue el editor y propietario del periódico The Washington Post, desde 1916 hasta 1933. Su esposa, Evalyn Walsh McLean, era una destacada socialité de Washington.
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